By using a particular class of directional wavelets (namely, the conical wavelets, which are wavelets strictly supported in a proper convex cone in the -space of frequencies), in this paper, it is shown that a tempered distribution is obtained as a finite sum of boundary values of analytic functions arising from the complexification of the translational parameter of the wavelet transform. Moreover, we show that for a given distribution , the continuous wavelet transform of with respect to a conical wavelet is defined in such a way that the directional wavelet transform of yields a function on phase space whose high-frequency singularities are precisely the elements in the analytic wavefront set of .